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Comment by blake

Final boss of Opening the Dark Portal in the Caverns of Time instance.

Comment by Rikelek

This can be a pretty rough fight and practically requires you to keep your tank topped off at all times (lifebloom can help here). He has a time stop ability and does not stop attacking when he uses this, he also has a breath that deals a considerable amount of damage (~3k+) so you need to face him away from the group. Try to DPS him down fast as your healer can run out of mana quickly. What REALLY helps on this fight is if you managed to save all your dragons for this last fight, they do a considerable amount of damage (~12%) to him and can make the fight from a really hard one, to a joke. Like anything rinse and repeat, dps, breath, heal, HoT, timestop, heal.

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Comment by hrnsk

You can't use your chrono beacons for the boss dragons, your summoned dragon will disappear. But you can use it for the trash mobs the bosses will spawn, but since Aeonus doesn't have any trash mobs there is no use for the beacon.

Comment by bredtape

He's a cake-walk with a hunter using tranquilizing shot.

Comment by Ambassador

The Black Morass

Strategy

As you enter the instance you will encounter three types of mobs (Spiders, Crocs, and Stealthed Cats) and all of these mobs are non-elites. As you move forward in the instance you will see Medivh surrounded by a red casting effect. The event will start the minute you get near Medivh, so avoid him until your group has cleared a good distance around Medivh of all three types of mobs. This gives you and your party room to move safely about during the event.

Once cleared of crocs, spiders, and cats make sure you are full-buffed and have your consumeables ready. Move close to Medivh to start the event. On the top center of your screen you will see a percentage of remaining shield left on Medivh and a Rift Status Counter. Your objective is to keep Medivh's shield from reaching zero percent and destroy what comes through each of the 18 Rifts.

Rift 1/18 will spawn somewhere in the woods surrounding Medivh. First, an elite Rift Keeper will come out and channel a spell near the Rift to keep it open. As long as the Rift Keeper is alive, the Rift stays open. As long as the rift stays open, more non-elite dragonflight will spawn from the Rift and head towards Medivh. One person in your party is to crowd control the non-elites and prevent them from hitting Medivh. Your main tank is always on the Rift Keeper until it dies. The Rift Keeper is channeling, mind you, so your party moves to each Rift as they spawn and tanks them there. Slay the Rift Keeper and finish the non-elites. There is time to drink between each Rift if you do this efficiently and quickly.

Each Rift will spawn somewhere in the woods surrounding Medivh. Rinse repeat with the elite Rift Keeper and non-elites.

However, there will be Bosses on Rift number 6, 12, and finally Rift 18. Non-elites will continue to spawn from the rifts as these are open so continue preventing them from reaching Medivh. After each boss kill there is a significantly longer time to res dead, drink, or prepare.

Boss explanation

1st Boss - Casts a magical slowing debuff (dispellable). Aoe knockback. Spank and tank.2nd Boss - Puts a debuff on your main tank (much like Kurinaxx) that reduces healing effects by 10% each stack. Obviously, this is a very heavy dps fight so you burn him as fast as possible. This is the only time when your crowdcontrol does not crowdcontrol and instead does damage to the boss. 3rd Boss - Hits like a truck and uses Time Stop (Much like Chromaggus). If you are a healer, you will get time-stopped and your tank will drop health fast. Shielding when time-stop wears off is efficient and as are HoT's (Heal over Time ). No non-elites come out of the 18th Rift so your crowdcontrol should be dps'ing.

After the 3rd boss is down, you are done with Black Morass. Talk to Medivh, complete your quest, and get your Karazhan key. Good luck.

Comment by Anarki

You can only use the chrono-beacons nearby Medivh.

Comment by McBainXIV

This boss is incredibly easy if you all save your dragons. As previously stated, he will only get rid of one, and they tear him apart. Since the rest of the instance is pretty easy, it shouldn't be too hard to save them all until the end, and then the end boss is cake. Definitely most recommended strategy.

Comment by Blownaparte

Also drops http://www.wowhead.com/?item=29253 in heroic mode. And the bosses have been modified (in heroic mode at least) to destroy all beacon dragons on summon, there is no cooldown on the purge, and timing can not be used to circumvent the purge.

The instance will also soft reset if left for X minutes / hours (was long enough for heroic Old Hillsbrad run)

Comment by Nataszja

I strongly recommend the use of the beacons here, as others have said. We have had great success dropping them at around 80%. The boss does dismiss the bronze dragons, but only one at a time so the rest provide amazing DPS while they are up.

As a healing priest, this encounter is not difficult to heal through at all. His special abilities, time stop and sand breath make for marginal challenges but even those are easy to deal with as long as the tank is topped off. HoTs help, of course. Now, this all assumes that your tank has the mental faculties to point him away from the rest of the party - if anyone but the tank eats sand breath, things can go wrong very quickly. Provided your group has decent DPS and with the dragons helping out, you should come out of this fight with plenty of mana to spare.

Comment by Faunus

2.0.10 this encounter is changed, as is all of DP (black morass). All of the bosses can despawn the bronze dragons at any time. When they "dispel" them, all of them will go at once.

So the old strat of "save your beacons and throw them all on aeonus" is no longer viable: he'll remove them all in 1 second and be agro'd.

Since they made this change, we no longer save our beacons, we now throw them down any time we don't want to deal with adds (temporus). The bronze dragons from the beacons will absolutely destroy any adds near them for the 20 or so seconds they're around. That is their intended use.

Side note, this change was actually hotfixed before the patch was released, not that it matters now, just FYI blizzard = ninja patchers when they want to.

Comment by Shimmergloom

I went to CoT2 several times yesterday (so under 2.0.10 conditions) and the chrono beacons were still usable at Aeonus and still helped burn him down a lot faster... still I heard from others too, that they will be dispelled.

Since you basically dont need them before, depending on your group setup, you might want to just throw them on Aeonus - they will still make it a lot easier :)

Comment by Neviskio

Just for info dropped 2 primal nether for us in two runs....it seems to have a "good" droprate of primal nether for my guild....

Comment by Hack

Warriors - you can use the spell reflection just before he does his timestop (seems to happen more often after sand breath from experience). Doesn't help you much with getting extra heals but at least you can shield block yourself still and pot up if required.

Comment by Wolfeh

As a level 70 lock you can cast Seed of Corruption on the elite when the adds come out of the portal. If you have enough +damage you can take out the add in one go. If you crit you take out an entire squad of the things.

Specially handy against the flying dragon thingies.

I found out its not really a good idea to use it on the bosses though. Since you may need to focus DPS on them instead of the adds.

Comment by Jamuka

Bastard didn't drop a nether on Heroic.

Comment by Stassom

Mages can blink out of his Time Stop ability.

Comment by Ilmater

We got Legplates of the Bold AND Latro's Shifting Sword off him last night... very nice. Our MT (incredible gear, the Legplates were the last piece of gear he wanted before Kara) went down when Aeonus was at about 30 - 40% because of the Time Stop.

I was on my fury spec'd war with my dps gear on, eq'd my shield, and was able to just barely survive through the rest of the battle. Very close. He hits extremely hard, and the time stop ability really sucks. Like the 2nd boss in BM, this one is all about DPS.

One other note: use the dragons on the last 5 spawns after the 2nd boss. They come very quickly, and given that the instance is timed and taking too long will mean you lose, it was worth it for us.

Comment by Nerissa

There is nothing more annoying than seeing a boss at 20% only to be time stopped one-tenth of a second before the big heal lands, have your tank eaten, have a second person eaten...

Unless it's managing to keep a mage alive vs his melee and breath only to be time-stopped AGAIN at 7%. RAWR.

Comment by DaAznSaN

A Beast Mastery hunter under the influence of Bestial Wrath is immune to Timestop.

Comment by salvation122

Things that totally blow: Back to back Time Stop/Sand Breath/Enrage.

That crap is an instant wipe, and it's competely out of the players' control. It's stupid, and should be nerfed.

Comment by Torgani

I would love to hear some Heroic strategies. The last boss drops a belt I'd really like, but the one time I've tried it heroic, the difficulty was so massively amped up that we barely killed the first rift keeper. He just seemed to have about 3-4x times the health and hit about 2-3x harder. It was the warrior type, and his thunderclap had about a 20 yard radius.

Anyone out there with success stories for Heroic Black Morass?

Comment by jeffzi

EDIT: - was a post re: the instance time. found it on the main page notes - please vote this down or (admin) delete -

Comment by kwerky

it takes about 30-60 mins depending on how fast you clear the un-elite addsit takes around 25-40 mins to clear the wavesBM also nets you 6000 rep (for the quest)

Comment by Mareric

We found that if Medivh's shield is still at 100% and you wipe on aeonus, you can rush back to the instance for a second try and not have to reset the instance. Medivh's shield should still be at 30% by the time you've healed back up and rebuffed.

However, this boss, in my opinion is easier that Temporus if you have a Hunter with you and shouldn't wipe anyways.

Comment by ascotan

Tanked him last night.

To be honest he's easier than temporus for a warrior. It's almost a 'tank n' spank'. The only thing to be aware of here, is that he has an aoe stun effect. This means you really need to be generating good aggro at the start. 5x sunders, shield slams, etc.

After downing boss 17, relax. Aeonus will beat on medivh's shield for awhile without any problems. Let everyone rest up.Tank runs in. As you do this people drop the beacons.

Aeonus will try to dispell the beacon guards if they pull aggro from the tank. The beacon gaurds hit like a freaking truck - so it's hard to keep aggro on yourself. Taunt is your friend here. The beacons will get him down to 50% pretty quick. From there it's a tank n' spank.

Comment by Mahadin

Pretty hard for a Paladin healer as a Time-Stopped heal can equal failure. Bring an offhealer, preferrably a Druid. I had a Balance Druid DPSing in normal form and spamming HoTs, I never went below ~70% mana nor did the tank go below ~70% health.

Comment by Painreaver

Hunters with 3/3 in hawk eye can stay at 41 yards and not be affected by the Time Stop effect. As mentioned above you can use Tranquilizing Shot when he enrages, this can avoid your tank dieing due to frenzy + healer being stunned.

Comment by deskchairlight

The new 2.2 patch has nerfed Heroic BM and BM in general to a lesser extent:

* Increased recast time on Shadow Bolt Volley on Rift Keeper, also reduced damage on Heroic.* Reduced hit points of Infinite Executioners on Heroic.* Decreases the maximum possible stacks of Temporus' Mortal Wound from 10 to 7.* Increased recast time for Temporus' Hasten spell on Heroic.

Comment by BobTheGreat

also an important note is that temporus is immune to taunt

Comment by Zenedar

Since patch 2.4, the Rift Keepers has their HP reduced, so this instance will be alot easier now.

Comment by Psilocybian

Can't believe no one has commented on his name yet... I guess I'll be the first.

Aeonus... I'm guessing you'd pronounce it "Anus".... If anyone has any other logical pronunciation, I'd sure love to hear it!

Comment by Psilocybian

Pronounced "Anus".

Nice, Blizzard. Nice.

Comment by shadowspa

BestVoiceEver

Comment by aeldon

wtb soundfiles

Comment by SSJ5Gogetenks

Voiced by Michael McConnohie, who also voiced Kel'Thuzad in vanilla WoW.

Comment by Jalen

One of those bosses who's still a tough solo at 80 if you're not a prime solo spec... as a Fury Warrior, had 108hp left when he went down.

Comment by XargonDragon

As a Protection Paladin, this fight was the easiest out of the entire instance, in terms of soloing. Not even the slightest bit of trouble.

Comment by Mydge

Solo'd today with my 85 Boomkin (bored and cheevie hunting).

I would consider it equal to questing in Uldum (difficulty/hp of the bosses).

1st boss was cake. Needed my treants to help on the 2nd boss. 3rd boss was cake again.

Thought I would need my beacon on the last dragon, but using only my own cooldowns I got him down pretty easy.

My gear is only just okay for 5man cata heroics - so certainly nothing special.

The most annoying part was running from place to place. However cheevie done, bubble still at 100%.

Easy as pai... tasty pai.

Comment by daninaus

i think EVERYONE is missing the point obout this boss... it would make a kick-ass mount! :P

Comment by BelziBhaal

Your time is up, slave of the past!

Comment by Neutralis

I would love to get a mount that looks like this.....

Comment by DjKyonshi

OMG! ^^ Got the Mana-etched Crown on 1st try, and the Bloodfire Greatstaff on the 2nd! Its Christmas again =D

Comment by symons1999

its now a bad idea to go in to fight this boss with some excellent gear or a partner or even three people. it helps alot

Comment by lecanard2

AeAnus was pretty easy, big deal, 3 xpacks after bc, hes so simple and dumbed down now, just like mc, they take it and dumb it down, i remember pre nerf c'thun

anyway, just burn him down, use your druid to battle rez any baddie that goes down and just burn him like that loud

Aeonus yells: The time has come to shatter this clockwork universe forever! Let us no longer be slaves of the hourglass! I warn you: those who do not embrace this greater path shall become victims of its passing!